Academic Plagiarism: Types, Importance of Academic Integrity and Tips to Avoid Plagiarism

Academic Plagiarism
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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Introduction
Plagiarism is referred to a deliberate attempt that is done in order to deceive the reader by
representing some body else's work in their own name. Academic plagiarism is referred to an act
where a writer tends to use more than four words from a particular presented source without the
use of quotation marks. Also, it is important that a precise reference of the original source must
be mentioned in the work that is presented as the original research and scholarship of the author
(Foltýnek, Meuschke and Gipp, 2019).
Main Body
Academic plagiarism is referred to an act where a writer tends to use more than four
words from a particular presented source without the use of quotation marks. It is important for a
writer to do continuous paraphrasing while avoiding the serious interaction with the view of
another person. It is basically a breach of trust. There plagiarism can occur in various forms and
have wide variety of plagiarism such as straight plagiarism, simple plagiarism using a foot note,
plagiarism using citation, Complex plagiarism using a footnote, paraphrasing as plagiarism,
plagiarism with hanging quotes. Straight plagiarism is a type of plagiarism that occurs when only
a capital words or sentence structure has been changed also an odd word is added or deleted.
Also, the original author is not acknowledged nor the quotations are marked (Díaz, Montoliu and
Becerra, 2018). Plagiarism using a citation is when the author is acknowledged but only minor
changes have been made. Simple plagiarism is when a reference is provided but quotation marks
are not used and minor changes are done in order to make it different from the original.
Plagiarism with hanging quotation begins by using a quotation but the quote is continued after
closing the quotations. Paraphrasing that is without reference to the original source without
adding the material that interacts with the paraphrased passages as well. Self plagiarism is when
a writer uses his or her work. Self plagiarism is not correct in law. Self plagiarism is very
significant to be differentiated from the recycling of one's own work. Internet has played a
significant role in plagiarism as it has made plagiarism easy (Meuschke and et.al., 2017). Internet
has given more evolution to plagiarism as these are caused by laziness, bad time management,
etc.
The concept of academic integrity is considered relevant to the professionalism in the
environment of business. Academic integrity is considered as the value of application of self
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